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Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. -- Clarence Darrow
One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's. -- Jerry Greenfield
When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons! -- Daphne Zuniga
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet. -- Anne Stevenson
Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling. -- Edward Hoagland
For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. -- Marco Rubio
All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious. -- Pearl S. Buck
A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners. -- Patrick Leahy
Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didnt get much recognition. -- Keegan Bradley
The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil. -- Robert Frost
I've been writing about Vermont independence for nearly ten years... and, more often than not, it was for an audience of one. -- Thomas Naylor
I'm very proud that the state of Vermont banned fracking. I hope communities all over California, and all over America do the same. -- Bernie Sanders
Earlier today former Vermont Governor Howard Dean became the new head of the Democratic National Committee -- no word on who will be the neck. -- Amy Poehler
It's a very insular political community up there. I think the court's part of that and they're protecting their own. There's no justice in Vermont today. -- Tom Fitton
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. -- Kit Bond
I was always into noir. When I lived in Vermont I was drawing stuff that looked like an amateur doing Sin City. When I first got to New York I was swiftly informed that they only did guys in tights. -- Frank Miller
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical." -- Jamaica Kincaid
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman. -- Craig Ferguson
Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks. -- Caroline Rhea
It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont. -- Trey Anastasio
You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers. -- Peter Shumlin
I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth. -- James Douglas
People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want? -- Tom Brady
As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice. -- Bernie Sanders
The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income. -- Peter Welch
I'm very impressed by St. Patrick's. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks. -- Caroline Rhea
Well, I have a farm in Vermont that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie! -- Tim Daly
Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south. -- Jan Morris
The Citizen's Petition reflects Vermont's spirit of pragmatism and across-the-board cooperation. I applaud the 'Campaign to Fix the Debt' for calling attention to one of the country's most pressing problems, our ballooning national debt, and for urging policymakers to find practical solutions. -- Peter Welch
In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited. -- Bernie Sanders
While opponents label (Howard) Dean a throwback liberal, The New York Times recently noted that as governor, Dean cut income taxes, reformed welfare and balanced Vermont's budget - all traditionally conservative policies. Dean also received an 'A' rating from the National Rifle Association, which I think you can't get unless you've killed a guy. -- Jon Stewart
Vermont is a country unto itself. -- Pearl S. Buck
I don't think everybody in Vermont loves me. -- Bernie Sanders
No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I don't have a PR rep. I live in Vermont. -- Colin Trevorrow
Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference. -- Fred Rogers
What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont. -- Abraham Maslow
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast. -- Bret Easton Ellis
Growing up in Vermont, no matter what I did, I didn't get much recognition. -- Keegan Bradley
Vermont will always be my home in my heart, but I really love L.A. -- King Tuff
Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect. -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season. -- Tracy Kidder
I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain. -- Chris Bohjalian
I had A Lover's Quarrel With The World Robert Lee Frost (Old Bennington Cemetery, Bennington, Vermont) Our Darling Eva We Love You. -- Eva Gabor
Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value. -- Bernie Sanders
Vermont's a place where barns come painted Red as a strong man's heart, Where stout carts and stout boys in freckles, Are highest forms of art -- Robert Tristram Coffin
New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont. -- Murray Bookchin
I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true. -- Bernie Sanders
For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do. -- Bernie Sanders
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years. -- Kit Bond
I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College. -- Jennifer McMahon
To me, it's normal. We summered in Vermont, and me and my sister Ilyasah went to one of the top ten schools in the country [the Hackley School]. -- Malaak Shabazz
In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue. -- Bernie Sanders
Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont. -- Lady Bird Johnson
My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything. -- Geena Davis
My friends ask me what it's like moving from Vermont to L.A., but no matter where I am, I pretty much just end up sitting in coffee shops, thinking about songs. -- King Tuff
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is expected to announce tomorrow that he is running for president, making him Hillary Clinton's only Democratic challenger so far. Or as Hillary put it, 'Oooo, appetizers!' -- Jimmy Fallon
My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
I have a farm in Vermont; that's my main residence, where I do lots of digging and mowing, and ride tractors - just so you don't get the wrong idea that I'm too girlie! -- Tim Daly
I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont. -- Dave Barry
I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met in Vermont in college. My Dad grew up listening to heavy, psychedelic music. He's my biggest fan. -- King Tuff
We`re doing everything in our power to make sure all the names are spelled correctly. We have up to eight weeks before they deliver the monument from Vermont to make any corrections in the spellings. -- Andy Ihnatko
Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague. -- Colin Trevorrow
As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein]. -- Bernie Sanders
The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it, and over 600,000 men, 2 percent of the population, died in it. -- Bruce Catton
I noted, though, that other strong critics of Donald Trump did attend the inauguration. Hillary Clinton went. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders went. I saw Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren. I saw Congressman James Clyburn, all of whom have been critics of Donald Trump. -- Michel Martin
Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears. -- Joan Didion
I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another. -- Peter Welch
Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring. -- Beth Orton
I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways. -- Ben Affleck
Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore. -- Peter Welch
I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us. -- Bernie Sanders
I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville. -- Abigail Washburn

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